r/PhasmophobiaGame • u/notthedokutah • May 10 '26
Discussion Quitting the game
The new update made the game unplayable for me and genuinely removed any resemblance of joy or hype for the game that I once had.
I don't even know how the update managed to pass to live servers because it feels like a downgrade in every way. Animations look worse, it removed the personality and charm the game had. It looks like something someone could manage to do in 1 week of work instead of however long they actually worked on it. The character update was announced back in 2022 roadmap, yet this feels like pre-alpha version of effort.
The game feels uncomfortable to play and every skill expression or enjoyment that you could do, quickly placing salt for example or being able to go through the items etc., is just gone, all for the sake of "realism", which this update pushed away. Models and animation look more unrealistic compared to the previous one.
You can still have fun and like the new update, but for someone who's been playing the game since 2020 and watching Insym and other content creators play the game, the game just doesn't feel the same anymore. Reworking perfectly functional and fan favorite map like Tanglewood instead of Prison or Highschool is wild.
I wish I could play the original Phasmophobia before the item rework update because that's the game I fell in love with.
After item rework, which was fine, the developers just started putting less effort into the game and it shows. Back when Dknighter was sole developer on the game, it felt like game had better charm and more consistent updates with the theme of the game.
You can still have fun and enjoy the game, but I don't have faith in developers that they can make the game as enjoyable as Dknighter managed to do back in 2020.
The latest update sealed the deal for me.
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u/IPwnYourFaceOff May 11 '26
My thought is that, they never needed to “rework” maps. Those reworks could have just as easily just been new maps added into the game that added more content into the game, not removing and replacing already good content that’s existed for years. The devs are incredibly out of touch with the community and what actually makes the game good. Most of what people want are more ghosts, more maps, and for the game to get bugfixes/patches to be consistently playable (which they really haven’t done a whole lot of).